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  UK adult sites to require proof of age from 2019

  Staff writer | Sun 23 Dec 2018 21:00 GMT

  MPs have backed changes to the law to stop children from accessing online adult content

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  Christmas traditions 'create a sense of stability', says Bishop of London

  Staff writer | Sun 23 Dec 2018 20:04 GMT

  The Bishop of London is encouraging people to escape the Brexit chaos by indulging in a panto, nativity play or other time-honoured Christmas traditions.

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  Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to Paddy Ashdown

  Staff writer | Sun 23 Dec 2018 13:13 GMT

  Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Paddy Ashdown died on Saturday at the age of 77 after being treated for bladder cancer.

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  Krakatau-triggered tsunami kills at least 168 in Indonesia, death toll set to rise

  Reuters | Sun 23 Dec 2018 10:07 GMT

  A tsunami killed at least 168 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide .

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  The more popular children are also more stingy

  Staff writer | Sat 22 Dec 2018 20:06 GMT

  Children who are popular are less likely to be generous with their friends when it comes to Christmas gifts, research has found.

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  Two arrested over Gatwick Airport drones as airport reopens

  Reuters | Sat 22 Dec 2018 17:03 GMT

  London's Gatwick Airport reopened on Friday after a mystery saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for more than 100,000 Christmas travelers by using drones to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army.

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  ISIS threatens Britain's 'pigs of the cross'

  Staff writer | Sat 22 Dec 2018 0:23 GMT

  The Islamic State has issued a fresh terrorist threat to 'pigs of the cross' in Britain this Christmas.

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  School children should learn about Jesus from Muslim and feminist perspectives, say academics

  Staff writer | Fri 21 Dec 2018 16:14 GMT

  School children should not only learn about the Christian Jesus, say the authors of a new classroom textbook.

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  Useful Idiots? As the UK sings Sudan's praises, the US designates it a country of 'particular concern'

  Maddy Crowther | Fri 21 Dec 2018 14:55 GMT

  What accounts for the gap between UK and US perceptions of a regime whose leader, Field Marshall Omar Bashir, has been indicted for genocide?

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  O come, all ye faithful: 5 reasons to sing Christmas carols

  Keith Getty | Fri 21 Dec 2018 13:51 GMT

  From Australia to Argentina to Anchorage, the message of Jesus will resonate from the mouths of his people in the same melodies and lyrics that his people have been singing for centuries.

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  Christmas is a spiritual eruption: What the West can learn from the Eastern Church

  Mark Vernon | Fri 21 Dec 2018 12:21 GMT

  Jesus' birth is not primarily an historical event, though it was that. It's a spiritual one.

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  And Was He God With Us?: A meditation for Christmas

  Bob Hartman | Fri 21 Dec 2018 11:49 GMT

  And was he God With Us the second the Spirit shadowed the virgin?